Slaves in our midst
THE ANTIDRUG campaign has become the
government’s preoccupation all this time. But it should be recalled that during
President Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address,...
If only graft and corruption is stopped…
ACCORDING
to the Professional Regulation Commission, 4,006 examinees out of 4,716 who
took September’s licensure examination for physicians passed. Kudos, too, to
all new doctors across the...
Just stop it
WHEN it rains, even ever so lightly,
Iloilo City’s streets turn into instant swimming pools. Clogged sewers are the
main culprits.
Every now and then the city...
In the classroom and beyond
(We
yield this space to the statement of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers due to
its timeliness. Today is World Teachers Day. – Ed.)
THE 200,000-strong Alliance...
Lack of job opportunities
ACORDING to the Social Weather
Stations (SWS) last month, the country’s joblessness rate in June 2019 was up
by one percentage point to 20.7 percent. This...
‘Rice and fall’
A STUDY of international advocacy group Oxfam warned that rice
yield in the Philippines will drop from 50 percent to 70 percent by 2020 because
of...
Our neglected front-liners for health
OVER the past year, the country has
been visited by a series of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like
measles, dengue and polio. Cases of another vaccine-preventable...
Does it matter if what we eat is organic or not?
IN THE RECENT Regional Organic
Agriculture Achievers’ Awards of the Department of Agriculture in Western
Visayas, Negros Occidental was recognized as an outstanding province in organic
farming.
Negros...
Planting trees not enough
SATURDAY’s Piyesta sang Kakahuyan of
the Iloilo provincial government saw the planting of some 10,000 tree seedlings
in Passi City.
There is no question about the need
for...
Young and exploited
TO AMPLIFY government efforts to protect
the rights of children, President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the creation of
the National Council Against Child Labor (NCLC). Under...